Object Pascal HandbookMarco Cantu
Object Pascal Handbook
by Marco Cantu · first published 2015
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If that's what your looking for, I find books that are adopted as university textbooks are best. i.e. C Programming Modern Approach by KN King, Object Pascal Handbook by Marco Cantu. Generally I'm staying away from O'Reilly, No Starch Press etc.. They all feel like books created by pasting a bunch of blog posts together. University texts are usually twice the price,…
on “Ask HN: What is the best programming book you've read?” ↗…streets ahead. There's a free download at https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/free-dow... Here's some resources to get you started There's a free book here: https://lp.embarcadero.com/Object-Pascal-Handbook-2021 and another here (pdf) (probably the best to start) https://www.marcocantu.com/edelphi/EssentialDelphi_1033_2020... There's intro videos here https://www.embarcadero.com/resources/videos They…
on “Catching Native Apps” ↗…thanks, Marco, for making this book available. I had bought a copy of one of your Delphi books around the 3 to 5 version timeframe, cannot remember which version right now. Also, I had downloaded your Object Pascal Handbook a few years ago, which is a great resource, because we devs need to know our programming language well too, not just the IDE or the libraries, which is what some book authors focus on. Thanks for that…
on “Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete” ↗…be compatible with it and Lazarus is pretty much a clone of Delphi 7. If memory serves right, neither Cantu's Essential Pascal book, which is a brief introduction to the language, nor his comprehensive Object Pascal Handbook cover the VCL but focus on the language itself. You may want to ask these questions in the Free Pascal community, this stuff is too uncool for the HN crowd.
on “Ask HN: What resources have you used to learn Free Pascal?” ↗http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30018 Object Pascal Handbook by Marco Cantu Available to registered users of Delphi XE8, RAD Studio XE8, C++Builder XE8, and Embarcadero All-Access XE This promotional item are available on XE7 purchases made after January 1, 2015…
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